Director - Global Markets Operational Risk

Bank of Montreal
Toronto, CA; US
On-site

Job Description

Application Deadline:

Address:

100 King Street West

Job Family Group:

Audit, Risk & Compliance

Key Competencies

  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Ability to balance technical understanding with risk management judgment.
  • Comfort navigating complex stakeholder environments.
  • High integrity and commitment to robust control standards.
  • Review trading incidents, system outages, and near-misses; provide independent analysis and require remediation where necessary.
  • Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviours in all that they do.
  • Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion.
  • Regularly connects work to BMO’s purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through.
  • Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.
  • Attracts, retains, and enables the career development of top talent.
  • Improves team performance, recognizes and rewards performance, coaches employees, supports their development, and manages poor performance.
  • Acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders for making business decisions and implementing strategic initiatives.
  • Develops an expert understanding of business/group challenges.
  • Networks with industry contacts to gather competitive insights and best practices.
  • Recommends measures to improve organizational effectiveness.
  • May consult to or serve on various committees and task forces.
  • Interprets new regulations and assesses impacts to the governance framework.
  • Influences and negotiates to achieve business objectives.
  • Identifies emerging issues and trends to inform decision-making.
  • Recommends business priorities, advises on resource requirements and develops roadmap for strategic execution.
  • Manages resources and leads the execution of strategic initiatives to deliver on business and financial goals.
  • Measures the effectiveness of risk governance system and framework; recommends changes as required.
  • Conducts independent analysis and assessment to resolve strategic issues.
  • Leads the development and maintenance of the governance system and framework.
  • Acts as the prime contact for internal/external stakeholder relationships, which may include regulators.
  • Represents the model validation program / portfolio for internal/external regulatory audits and/or examinations.
  • Ensures alignment between stakeholders.
  • Designs and produces regular and ad-hoc reports, and dashboards.
  • Develops and manages comprehensive information management systems; designs and/or leads initiatives to improve processes, analysis and reporting.
  • Defines business requirements for analytics & reporting to ensure data insights inform business decision making.
  • Leads change management programs of varying scope and type, including readiness assessments, planning, stakeholder management, execution, evaluation and sustainment of initiatives.
  • Leads the development of the communication strategy focusing on positively influencing or changing behaviour.
  • Assesses and adapts existing operational programs; develops new capabilities to ensure ongoing success.
  • Leads the execution of operational programs; assesses and adapts as needed to ensure quality of execution.
  • Manages the review and sign-off process for relevant regulatory reporting.
  • Leads and integrates the monitoring, measurement & reporting on the status of the operational risk governance program to internal & external stakeholders.
  • Leads the management of governance meetings and maintenance of governing body mandates, oversight and approval guidelines.
  • May provide specialized support for other internal and external regulatory requirements.
  • Provides input into the planning and implementation of ongoing operational programs in support of the operational risk framework.
  • Leads/participates in the design, implementation and management of core business/group processes.
  • Administers and maintains operational risk program activities in adherence to all policies, procedures and established processes.
  • Identifies potential risk situations/ impacts, and make recommendations or escalates to the manager, as per guidelines.
  • Develops and maintains in-depth knowledge of business and related risk management requirements and legislative/ regulatory directives and guidance.
  • Builds effective relationships with internal/external stakeholders e.g. business stakeholders and Corporate Support Areas (CSAs) in providing ‘second line of defense’ operational risk management support.
  • Analyzes data and information to provide insights and recommendations; includes identification of risk impacts for new processes and workflows related to initiatives.
  • Monitors and tracks performance; addresses any issues.
  • Coordinates and monitors the review and sign-off of attestations and repo

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

Critical thinkingProblem-solvingRisk managementStakeholder managementTeam collaborationLeadershipCommunicationNetworkingRegulatory complianceData analysisFinancial servicesRisk management

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Level

senior

Posted

4/12/2026

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